Vegetation dynamics and land–atmosphere interactions
Vegetation dynamics and land–atmosphere interactions
Session ID#: 280297
Session Description:
Land–atmosphere interactions are fundamental drivers of weather, climate, and hydroclimate variability across spatial and temporal scales. Exchanges of energy and water between the land surface and the atmosphere shape boundary-layer development, precipitation patterns, and climate extremes. Terrestrial ecosystems both mediate and respond to these exchanges: vegetation structure, phenology, productivity, biodiversity, and land management influence land–atmosphere coupling, while atmospheric variability and extremes threaten ecosystem function, resilience, and recovery. These feedbacks are especially important in water-limited ecosystems (e.g., savannas ecosystems). Improving understanding of these two-way interactions is essential for better predicting droughts, heatwaves, rainfall patterns, and other hazards, and for understanding how ecosystems respond to, recover from, and potentially amplify these stresses in a changing climate.
We invite topics include, but are not limited to: land–atmosphere interactions, hydroclimate extremes, ecosystem resilience, short- or long-term variability of soil moisture, evapotranspiration, vegetation productivity and phenology, land cover changes, and their respective changing mechanisms.
Co-Sponsor(s):
- A - Atmospheric Sciences
- B - Biogeosciences
- EP - Earth and Planetary Surface Processes
- H - Hydrology
Index Terms:
0439 Ecosystems, structure and dynamics [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
1631 Land/atmosphere interactions [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1813 Eco-hydrology [HYDROLOGY]
4313 Extreme events [NATURAL HAZARDS]
Primary Convener: Weijie Zhang, University of California Berkeley, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, Berkeley, CA, United States
Conveners: Akash Koppa, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, Benjamin Cook, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, United States; Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States and Prof. Lixin Wang, PhD, Indiana University Indianapolis, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Indianapolis, United States
Student/Early Career Convener: Wantong Li, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, Berkeley, United States
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